{"product_id":"american-boundaries-the-nation-the-states-the-rectangular-survey","title":"American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAmerican Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBill Hubbard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0226355918\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e472\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFor anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marveled at the vast grid spreading out in all directions below, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e will yield a welcome treasure trove of insight. The first book to chart the country's growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard's masterly narrative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be held in trust for the common benefit of the people. Hubbard goes on to show--with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps--how the notion evolved that unsettled land should be divided into rectangles and sold to individual farmers, and how this rectangular survey spread outward from its origins in Ohio, with surveyors drawing straight lines across the face of the continent. Mapping how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Boundaries \u003c\/i\u003ewill provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey | Bill Hubbard | Hardcover | 0226355918 | Used: Good | Back Stacks J 1787866","offer_id":50862053589250,"sku":"1787866","price":73.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71-ZBA_r88L.jpg?v=1792845249","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/american-boundaries-the-nation-the-states-the-rectangular-survey","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}